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Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper

Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper

Legendary Creature — Orc Shaman · {2}{B}{R}{G} · Black/Green/Red commander

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 3/1 black and red Graveborn creature token with haste.
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What Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper actually does

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What a Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper deck needs

Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Esika's Chariot4 mana
  3. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  4. Wrenn and Seven5 mana
  5. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  6. Hanweir Garrison3 mana
  7. Rampant Frogantua3 mana
  8. Sarkhan, Fireblood3 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Castle Embereth0 mana
  2. Finale of Devastation2 mana
  3. Great Train Heist1 mana
  4. Beastmaster Ascension3 mana
  5. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  6. Rising of the Day3 mana
  7. Assault Formation2 mana
  8. Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse2 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Carrion Feeder1 mana
  2. Viscera Seer1 mana
  3. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  4. Goblin Bombardment2 mana
  5. Spawning Pit2 mana
  6. Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
  7. Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
  8. Dark Privilege2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Defile1 mana
  4. Tragic Slip1 mana
  5. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  6. Terminate2 mana
  7. Fatal Push1 mana
  8. Beast Within3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  8. Grim Tutor3 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  8. Crypt Rats3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Sylvan Library2 mana
  4. Black Market Connections3 mana
  5. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  6. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  7. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  8. Phyrexian Arena3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  3. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Asceticism5 mana
  7. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  8. Commander's Plate1 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Rakdos Signet2 mana
  3. Golgari Signet2 mana
  4. Gruul Signet2 mana
  5. Incubation Druid2 mana
  6. Palladium Myr3 mana
  7. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  8. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana

Combos with Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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